THE DESTRUCTION OF AMERICA: CALIFORNIA'S GROWING THIRD WORLD POPULATION

By Frosty
Wooldridge
May 28, 2012
NewsWithViews.com

California’s
growing third world population

If
you visit northern California, you might think everything works well.
But as soon as you reach San Francisco and travel south, you understand
nothing can end up ‘well’ in a state morphing into third
world slums.

What
defines the ‘third world’? In a word: illiteracy! Once entrenched,
you cannot and will not solve it, change it or rearrange it. It grows
like barnacles on a whale’s belly, like slums in a city, like
the AIDS virus.

On
the Mexican border, the poorest of the poor cross the Rio Grande and
set up Colonias known as ‘new neighborhoods’ in California,
Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. The New York Times reported on them,
“The Third World forms on America’s southern border.”
They found in 1985 an estimated 500,000 Mexicans living in cardboard
shacks, trailers, no water, no electricity, no roads, no sewage. In
1995, the numbers hit 1 million. The NYT estimated at the current growth,
colonias would reach 20 million within 30 years.

It
means a gargantuan predicament for our country as to health, welfare,
education, medical care and sustainability.

Finally,
a no-nonsense historian, none other than California’s Victor Davis
Hanson, wrote a sobering story for all of America as to relentless immigration
pouring over our borders, both legal and illegal: “Two California’s—Abandoned
farms, Third World living conditions, pervasive public assistance --
welcome to the once-thriving Central Valley.” Full text in www.capitoliticalnews.com

Victor
Davis Hanson touched upon it in his travels:

“Many
of the rented-out rural shacks and stationary Winnebagos are on former
small farms — the vineyards overgrown with weeds, or torn out
with the ground lying fallow. I pass on the cultural consequences to
communities from the loss of thousands of small farming families. I
don’t think I can remember another time when so many acres in
the eastern part of the valley have gone out of production, even though
farm prices have recently rebounded. Apparently it is simply not worth
the gamble of investing $7,000 to $10,000 an acre in a new orchard or
vineyard. What an anomaly — with suddenly soaring farm prices,
still we have thousands of acres in the world’s richest agricultural
belt, with available water on the east side of the valley and plentiful
labor, gone idle or in disuse. Is credit frozen? Are there simply no
more farmers? Are the schools so bad as to scare away potential agricultural
entrepreneurs? Or are we all terrified by the national debt and uncertain
future?

“California
coastal elites may worry about the oxygen content of water available
to a three-inch smelt in the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta,
but they seem to have no interest in the epidemic dumping of trash,
furniture, and often toxic substances throughout California’s
rural hinterland. Yesterday, for example, I rode my bike by a stopped
van just as the occupants tossed seven plastic bags of raw refuse onto
the side of the road. I rode up near their bumper and said in my broken
Spanish not to throw garbage onto the public road. But there were three
of them, and one of me. So I was lucky to be sworn at only. I note in
passing that I would not drive into Mexico and, as a guest, dare to
pull over and throw seven bags of trash into the environment of my host.

“In
fact, trash piles are commonplace out here — composed of everything
from half-empty paint cans and children’s plastic toys to diapers
and moldy food. I have never seen a rural sheriff cite a litterer, or
witnessed state EPA workers cleaning up these unauthorized wastelands.
So I would suggest to Bay Area scientists that the environment is taking
a much harder beating down here in central California than it is in
the Delta. Perhaps before we cut off more irrigation water to the west
side of the valley, we might invest some green dollars into cleaning
up the unsightly and sometimes dangerous garbage that now litters the
outskirts of our rural communities.

“We
hear about the tough small-business regulations that have driven residents
out of the state, at the rate of 2,000 to 3,000 a week. But from my
unscientific observations these past weeks, it seems rather easy to
open a small business in California without any oversight at all, or
at least what I might call a “counter business.” I counted
eleven mobile hot-kitchen trucks that simply park by the side of the
road, spread about some plastic chairs, pull down a tarp canopy, and,
presto, become mini-restaurants. There are no “facilities”
such as toilets or washrooms. But I do frequently see lard trails on
the isolated roads I bike on, where trucks apparently have simply opened
their draining tanks and sped on, leaving a slick of cooking fats and
oils. Crows and ground squirrels love them; they can be seen from a
distance mysteriously occupied in the middle of the road.

“At
crossroads, peddlers in a counter-California economy sell almost anything.
Here is what I noticed at an intersection on the west side last week:
shovels, rakes, hoes, gas pumps, lawnmowers, edgers, blowers, jackets,
gloves, and caps. The merchandise was all new. I doubt whether in high-tax
California sales taxes or income taxes were paid on any of these stop-and-go
transactions.

“In
two supermarkets 50 miles apart, I was the only one in line who did
not pay with a social-service plastic card (gone are the days when “food
stamps” were embarrassing bulky coupons). But I did not see any
relationship between the use of the card and poverty as we once knew
it: The electrical appurtenances owned by the user and the car into
which the groceries were loaded were indistinguishable from those of
the upper middle class. [Rampant ID forgeries, theft and fraud abound
in California.]

“By
that I mean that most consumers drove late-model Camrys, Accords, or
Tauruses, had iPhones, Bluetooths, or BlackBerries, and bought everything
in the store with public-assistance credit. This seemed a world apart
from the trailers I had just ridden by the day before. I don’t
editorialize here on the logic or morality of any of this, but I note
only that there are vast numbers of people who apparently are not working,
are on public food assistance, and enjoy the technological veneer of
the middle class. California has a consumer market surely, but often
no apparent source of income. Does the $40 million a day supplement
to unemployment benefits from Washington explain some of this?

“Do
diversity concerns, as in lack of diversity, work both ways? Over a
hundred-mile stretch, when I stopped in San Joaquin for a bottled water,
or drove through Orange Cove, or got gas in Parlier, or went to a corner
market in southwestern Selma, my home town, I was the only non-Hispanic
— there were no Asians, no blacks, no other whites. We may speak
of the richness of “diversity,” but those who cherish that
ideal simply have no idea that there are now countless inland communities
that have become near-apartheid societies, where Spanish is the first
language, the schools are not at all diverse, and the federal and state
governments are either the main employers or at least the chief sources
of income — whether through emergency rooms, rural health clinics,
public schools, or social-service offices. An observer from Mars might
conclude that our elites and masses have given up on the ideal of integration
and assimilation, perhaps in the wake of the arrival of 11 to 15 million
illegal aliens.

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“Again,
I do not editorialize, but I note these vast transformations over the
last 20 years that are the paradoxical wages of unchecked illegal immigration
from Mexico, a vast expansion of California’s entitlements and
taxes, the flight of the upper middle class out of state, the deliberate
effort not to tap natural resources, the downsizing in manufacturing
and agriculture, and the departure of whites, blacks, and Asians from
many of these small towns to more racially diverse and upscale areas
of California.”

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Frosty
Wooldridge possesses a unique view of the world, cultures and families
in that he has bicycled around the globe 100,000 miles, on six continents
and six times across the United States in the past 30 years. His published
books include: "HANDBOOK FOR TOURING BICYCLISTS"; “STRIKE THREE! TAKE
YOUR BASE”; “IMMIGRATION’S UNARMED INVASION: DEADLY CONSEQUENCES”; “MOTORCYCLE
ADVENTURE TO ALASKA: INTO THE WIND—A TEEN NOVEL”; “BICYCLING AROUND
THE WORLD: TIRE TRACKS FOR YOUR IMAGINATION”; “AN EXTREME ENCOUNTER:
ANTARCTICA.” His next book: “TILTING THE STATUE OF LIBERTY INTO A SWAMP.”
He lives in Denver, Colorado.